GEO AUDITS FOR SMALL BUSINESSES  |  5 MODELS MEASURED REPORT IN 3 DAYS
60% OF SEARCHES END WITHOUT A CLICK
GENERATIVE ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

THECITED

This is the moment your customer picks someone.

9:41 ▮▮▮
AI assistant
SOURCES
yoursite.com reviews.de directory.eu
Ask anything
That answer was
thecited's work.

We put the facts, citations and reviews in place that make the model name you.

Get your audit — €290

Whoever the model names wins the customer. We make sure that's you.

Get your audit — €290 See what we check

We ask the models what your customers ask — then fix what comes back.

AFTER 12 WEEKS
78/100
MODELS MEASURED
4
AI VISIBILITY SCORE● LIVE
42/100
CHATGPTMENTIONED
PERPLEXITYRARELY
GOOGLE AINOT FOUND
SCORE

One number for how often AI names you.

BENCHMARK

Who gets named ahead of you, and why.

MONITORING

Weekly tracking of every mention.

WHY NOW

Search moved to answers

900 million people use ChatGPT every week, three times as many as at the end of 2024. OpenAI reported the figure in February 2026. Anyone missing from those answers is invisible to that audience.

CHATGPT USERS · 300M → 900M · OPENAI, DEC 2024 AND FEB 2026+200%
202220242026
68%

of US Google searches ended without a click. Measured by SparkToro using Similarweb data, January to April 2026.

900M

people use ChatGPT every week. Figure from OpenAI, February 2026.

THE AUDIT

Built to find what's missing

One report you read in two minutes: score, gaps, competitor benchmark and a prioritized plan. Delivered in three days.

Visibility Report

Everything the models know about you — and everything they don't.

See a sample report
Scan every model

ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity — asked the questions your customers ask.

Benchmark the competition
Find the missing signals
Prioritize seven fixes
Monitor and report weekly
BENCHMARK · "…FOR SMALL BUSINESSES"SHARE OF AI VOICE
Competitor A
82
Competitor B
74
Competitor C
61
You
42
Competitor D
35
Structured business dataMISSING
Directory citationsMISSING
Review presenceWEAK
Q&A contentWEAK
→ 7 PRIORITIZED FIXES · BIGGEST WIN FIRST
HOW IT WORKS

From invisible to recommended

Three steps, no marketing vocabulary. You can stop after the audit, or keep measuring every week.

1

Audit

We ask ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity what your customers ask, and score how visible you are today.

2

Plan

A prioritized, plain-English action plan — just what to fix, in order.

3

Track

You carry out the plan, we keep measuring every week and show whether it moved the score.

LIVE VIEW

Your own dashboard

You open your link and read what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and Gemini said about you this week, word for word. Underneath sits what they based it on and what to do next.

SAMPLE DATA · NOT A REAL CUSTOMER

What we measure

FOUR SIGNALS
42
42 / 100
Visibility score today
8% → 27%
Share of AI voice
+240%
Mentions per week, 12 weeks
SOURCES
What the models quote you from
HOW OFTEN EACH MODEL NAMES YOU · EXAMPLE4 MODELS · 12 WEEKS · ILLUSTRATIVE
week 1week 6week 12
ChatGPT65%
Gemini44%
Perplexity30%
Google AI12%
THE PAYOFF

Data always named someone

What three months can look like: mentions climb, share of voice triples, and the score moves from invisible to recommended. The figures in this chart are an illustration, not measured client results.

AI MENTIONS / WEEK+240%
4278

visibility score

8%27%

share of AI voice

+36

points in 12 weeks

* ILLUSTRATIVE TRAJECTORY · RESULTS DEPEND ON MARKET AND STARTING POINT

PRICING

Pick a package

Everything is paid up front. Afterwards it continues monthly, if you want it to.

AUDIT
€290
ONE-TIME · NO SUBSCRIPTION
  • 01 Measured once across ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity
  • 02 Your AI visibility score
  • 03 Who gets named instead of you
  • 04 Action plan: what to do, step by step
  • 05 Report in three days · one country, up to two possible
Get the audit
STARTER
€390
AUDIT PLUS THREE MONTHS OF TRACKING
Everything in the Audit, plus:
  • 01 Three months of live tracking
  • 02 10 questions, measured every week
  • 03 Your score over time
  • 04 Up to three countries instead of two
Book the Starter
PRO
€790
SIX MONTHS · = €132 PER MONTH
Everything in the Starter, plus:
  • 01 Three audits instead of one — at the start, after three months and after six
  • 02 25 questions instead of 10
  • 03 Six months instead of three
  • 04 Up to six countries instead of three
Book Pro
AFTERWARDS
from€59per month, until you cancel
AFTERWARDS
from€199per month, until you cancel

Each further country costs €20 a month. Every package includes one country; you can pick up to two in the Audit, up to three in the Starter and up to six in Pro. You choose your countries after the purchase in the company profile and see your final price there before you confirm it. During the months you already paid for, every further country runs at no extra cost. The audit includes every country you pick anyway.

We remind you by email before the first charge, and cancelling takes one click — no notice period, effective at the end of the period you paid for.

The free quick check is further down this page. No VAT is charged (§ 19 UStG, German small business scheme).

We measure and tell you exactly what to do. We do not touch your website. Every step is written so you, or whoever builds your site, can do it without us. That is why it stays affordable.

Questions

What does "cited by AI" mean?+

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Google AI for a recommendation, the model names a few businesses with sources. thecited gets you into that shortlist.

Who is this for?+

Solo founders, freelancers, consultants, agencies, practices, trades and small shops — anyone customers look up before choosing.

What's included in the €290 audit?+

A full test across every major AI model, your Visibility Score, a competitor benchmark and a prioritized action plan.

Do I need to be technical?+

No. The report contains no technical term without an explanation. Every step says what to do, where to find it and why it matters.

Is there a contract?+

The audit is a one-time €290. The starter package is €390 and includes three months of tracking, because one month proves nothing: Perplexity moves in 2 to 8 weeks, ChatGPT in months. After that the tracker continues at €59 a month — we remind you by email first, and you can cancel any time with one click at thecited.ai/en/cancel. Pro is €790 for six months, measures 25 questions instead of 10 and includes a full audit every three months — at the start, after three months and after six. It then continues at €199 a month. No minimum term beyond the period you paid for. If we measure in more than one country, each country beyond your main market costs €20 a month — the audit includes every country you pick at no extra cost. You choose your countries after the purchase in the company profile and see your final price there before you confirm it.

Isn't this just SEO?+

Google lists ten blue links, an AI system names three companies. Position seven still earns clicks on Google and nothing at all in an AI answer. The second difference matters more: these systems mostly quote pages you do not own. Directories, best-of lists, forums. Your own website alone will not get you there.

How do you know what ChatGPT answers?+

We ask it ourselves. Every one of your questions runs three times through five systems, from your target country, every week. We measure through the providers' programming interface rather than the app, because the same question returns comparable answers there. Who the systems name and which pages they quote then appears in your dashboard.

How long before anything moves?+

Perplexity responds within two to eight weeks, ChatGPT takes months. The reason is technical: Perplexity searches afresh on every question, while ChatGPT leans on an index that updates less often. That is why the tracker measures weekly, and why the starter package covers three months. A single month tells you nothing.

What do I have to do myself?+

Work through the roadmap. Each action is its own card: what to do, where to find it, why it counts. Most take twenty minutes. Where schema code is needed, we write the finished block and you paste it in. If you have no time for it, hand the roadmap to your web agency.

Do you need access to my website?+

No. We read your site the way an AI system reads it: from the outside, publicly. No password, no plugin, no access to your analytics. Whatever gets changed, you change yourself.

What if nobody asks AI about my industry?+

Then we tell you. The audit first checks whether questions about your offering exist at all, and how often the systems answer them with company names. If that comes out thin, the report says so. A customer paying every month for a line that never moves is no use to us either.

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